Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology (Fourth Edition)
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ISBN: 9780393614008
Author: Clark Spencer Larsen
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Introduction: Hominin is a term used frequently to indicate the human lineage’s extinct members. The behaviors of hominins preceded material culture as well as the speech by several million years and very clear evidence is present for this.
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